Bad news ... but some good maybe?

Bad news ... but some good maybe?
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First the bad: I fell off the NC wagon again: o( .... he called and told me about his day doing DIY. There was a silence as I didn't know if he had finished. He said "Well it looks like there is nothing else to say. You are such hard work, got no conversation. I don't know why I give up my precious time to talk to you when you don't appreciate it!". I said I didn't know why he called when he told me the other week that "we are nothing". He said he had apologised for this (see post on genuine apology? ).

He then came out with the following:

Don't take it personally I don't want a relationship with anybody. I feel weird and emotionless. Perhaps I am too inward looking. But I don't want to hurt you in any way. I know I am too good for most people but at least you know you were in the right league or I wouldn't have spent so much time on you! I am just in a state of flux. I wish we hadn't slept together (although I don't find you repulsive! ) but I have given a bit of myself away.

I said I would just stay out of his life. ...then he said not to make it final, he wanted me as part of his life just not as girlfriend and I had to make him WANT to be part of mine. He ended up by saying he felt sorry for me because I will end up sad and lonely and he doesn't want that for me because he cares about me a lot.

I hung up the phone and was sick.

The good news might be I have realised why you all recommend NC as only answer because. ....

I am hurting hurting hurting. ... thinking its me that made this go wrong. If he cares. .. is he for real? Or is this another ploy? He sounds genuine in his concern and now makes me out to be a sad loser. I howled down phone at my mum. .. she said "where is your pride? Listen to the arrogance! Do you want to be treated like this?"

I don't. .... but I can't seem to dig my way out of this despair. I keep thinking he said those things because of something I did. .. that they are normal things and I am the mad one. Is this cognitive dissonance?!

When will it stop hurting?

wholeagain's picture

Yuck

What an arrogant pig!!!!! He knows he's too good for most people? He doesn't find you repulsive? Gee what a prince--NOT.

I'm with your mom on this one. He would do this to anyone he dated, this is not about you and nothing involving him ever will be about you. This is aaaaall about him, oh and his projection on you about loneliness? It might be kinda lonely when you think you're too good for most people.

Please Ms. Alibi, stop letting this weenie mess with your mind. Go NC so you can start to see clearly. For now, read this as if your best friend were relating her story to you, or one of us. How would it read to you then?

He's pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.

It will stop hurting after you stop exposing yourself to his bulls**t. It takes time and you have to stick with NC but I promise it gets better and one day you'll see things in a totally different light.

Janet's picture

Today could be the first day

Today could be the first day of complete freedom from him if you let it be. He is awful, you know it and oh God, it really, really hurts (I remember frighteningly similar conversations). 8 months of NC later I look back and wonder why I let that little creep hold sway over my life. Good luck.

Peace. J

helldweller's picture

Alibi

What a complete freaking weirdo. How do they stand there and hear themselves SAY this bullsh*t to people? Can you imagine saying crap like that to someone?
Believe me, honey, I know what you're feeling. But you have got to listen to how nuts he is.
Mine rationalized lying to his girlfriend of three years to take his five year old foster child to sleep with another woman for a week--all in the same bed together! He said he "got scared." When you get scared, you back off a little or a lot, you don't get into bed with a woman and a child two thousand miles away, while calling on the phone promising to come home and propose.
My point is, I don't care if you had a threesome with his sister and his mother in his own bed while telling him to screw himself. You cannot rationalize or make excuses for the unbelieveable crazy CRAZY stuff that came out of his mouth. Normal people simply do not stay stuff like that. He is severely disconnected in his mind. He sounds actually schizophfrenic, really scary. Please don't talk to him anymore, please, please, please! You sound somewhat mnore unstable than after your last contact. Don't let it happen again!

Nicole96's picture

I fear this happening.

My N on some level knows just how cruel he can be. I think that is why he keeps avoiding talking to me if possible. He still says or txts things that kill me... but he seems to have some tiny level of control. However i am scared to death now. I am afraid of this all happening to me. He might get worse and i wont know how to deal with him / talk to him. You cant say absolutely nothing... you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. and isn't that what its all about? He is broken and it doesn't matter what you do or what you say.

jen79's picture

alibi

This the worst narcisstic bullshit I ever heard.

Yes you fell off the NC wagon, I did thousand times, there is no way to get better by looking back and beating yourself up, and there is no way getting better by hoping you'll get a decent closure by him. Dont get me wrong yesterday I did the same, in a weak moment I texted him. It is too awfull to write it down yet. But I decided after that, that from now on I am not going to look back ever.

It is done, they all are saying the same shit, I care, I cant commit blahblahbla. It is NOT you, it is them. This is coward crazy avoidant behaviour, toying with feelings. And no way you are ever going to feel better with him - ever.

GO NC. Yes you were a fool, I was too. So what? You didnt lose anything, but a bullshit talking ass. Is there anything you can do today to distract yourself?

I am going to paint today. And I made a vow, that I am not looking back again to him or to my behaviour with him. It was doomed from the first minute. These are mindf**k players.

Hugs!

Nicole96's picture

mindf*&k!

that is what i use all the time to describe this mess. It is always such a miserable mindf*&k!